''jubilat'' is a widely distributed, highly acclaimed American poetry and prose journal headquartered at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. First published in 2000, it was founded by Rob Casper, Christian Hawkey, Michael Teig and Kelly LeFave. From its first issue onward, ''jubilat'' has aimed to publish what's most alive in contemporary American poetry, and to place it alongside selections of reprints, found pieces, prose of various kinds, art, and interviews with poets and other artists.

National acclaim and honors

Work from recent issues of jubilat have been chosen by Best American Poetry 2017, 2009, 2005, 2001; The

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

: Best of the Small Presses 2003 and 2004; and several times for reprint in Harper's. jubilat has also been featured in Poets & Writers, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and was shown in the

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's 2002 exhibit New American

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s. jubilat participates in the Academy of American Poets'

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initiative as Media Sponsors, and in the

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' national Lit Mag and Small Press Fairs.

Associated events

Since 2001, jubilat has co-sponsored the jubilat/Jones Reading Series at the Jones Library in

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. Readers in that series have included James Tate, Matthea Harvey,

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, Dara Wier, Peter Richards, Matthew Zapruder, D.A. Powell, Brenda Shaughnessy, Jorie Graham, Mark Levine, Caroline Knox, Brian Henry, Tomaz Salamun, Matthew Rohrer, Ben Doyle, Emily Wilson, Frank Bidart, Saskia Hamilton, Rachel Zucker, Mark Wunderlich, David Rivard, Fanny Howe, Arielle Greenberg, Sarah Manguso, C.D. Wright, Prageeta Sharma, Michael Earl Craig, Chelsey Minnis, Catherine Wagner, James Haug, Michael Gizzi, Afaa Michael Weaver, Elizabeth Willis, Henri Cole, Anselm Berrigan, Ann Lauterbach, William Corbett, Forrest Gander, Lisa Jarnot, Srikanth Reddy, Anthony McCann, Brian Blanchfield, Katy Lederer, Travis Nichols, Cole Swenson, Gillian Conoley, Maggie Nelson, Dean Young, Tony Hoagland, Mary Jo Salter, Rebecca Wolff, Suzanne Buffam, Dan Chaisson, Daisy Fried, Mong-Lan, Keith Waldrop, Rosemary Waldrop, Major Jackson, Lesle Lewis, Cathy Park Hong, D. Nurkse, Dorothea Lasky, Laura Solomon, Mark Leidner, Michael Snediker, John Emil Vincent, Kimiko Hahn, Zach Schomberg, Emily Kendal Frey, Timothy Donnelly, Natalie Lyalin, Jordan Stempleman, Michelle Taransky, Dobby Gibson, Brett Ralph, Jenny Kronovet, Caryl Pagel, Jericho Brown, C.A. Conrad, David Berman, David Brinks, Steve Healey, Lucy Ives, John Beer, Ish Klein, Ben Lerner, Matvei Yankelvich, Julie Carr, Ryan Murphy,

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, Polina Barskova, Alan Felsenthal, Rachel B. Glaser, Joshua Beckman, Jeffrey Yang,

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, Tyehimba Jess.

Funding

jubilat is funded by private donors, fund-raising efforts, and in part by support from Massachusetts Cultural Council, University of Massachusetts Amherst Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts and the University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Executive Editor, Dara Wier Editors, Kevin González, Caryl Pagel, Emily Pettit Special Issues Editor, Arda Collins Found Content Editor, Halie Theoharides Assistant Editor, John Goodhue Special Features Editor, Amanda Dahill-Moore Web Editor, Lauren Haldeman Design, Mary Austin Speaker Managing Editor, Halie Theoharides Assistant Managing Editor, Caroline Rayner Editorial Assistants, Emilie Menzel, Stacey Cusson Readers, John Goodhue, Stevie Belchak, Hannah Bishop, Brittany Capps, Zachery Elbourne, Emily Hunerwadel, Allison Ice, Michaela Loewer, Jamie Thomson Social Media Editors, Zachery Elbourne, Emily Hunerwadel * Founding Publisher, Robert N. Casper Founding Editors, Christian Hawkey, Kelly LeFave & Michael Teig Editors-at-Large, Jen Bervin, Terrance Hayes, Cathy Park Hong, Evie Shockley Contributing Editors, Jessica Fjeld, Peter Gizzi, Kimiko Hahn, Matthea Harvey, Eric Keenaghan, Andrew Kenower, Brett Fletch Lauer, Jeffrey Lependorf

References

External links

Official Website
{{University of Massachusetts Amherst Poetry magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 2000 Magazines published in Massachusetts